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Taking the train home for Christmas eve, McKenna's mentor, the Māori prophet Rawiri Temera, is plunged headlong into a ghostly adventure.
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Into the Weeping Waters - Lee Murray
Praise for Lee Murray
Murray’s tales run the gamut of the horror spectrum, from horrifying to terrifying to heartbreaking.
Tom Deady, Bram Stoker Award-winning Author of Haven
The author’s greatest strengths lie in her characters, and her ability to show us all the land she loves.
Sci-Fi and Scary
Murray’s engaging tales bring us into the dreamtime of the imagination…
Linda D. Addison, HWA Lifetime Achievement Award winner
Into the Weeping Waters
A Taine McKenna Short Story
Lee Murray
Squabbling Sparrows PressCopyright © 2024 by Lee Murray
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ISBN:
978-1-0670158-2-4 (ebook)
Into the Weeping Waters, a prequel to the Taine McKenna Adventure series, was first published as short story Weeping Waters
in Fright Train, edited by The Switch House Gang. Twisted Publishing, an imprint of Haverhill House Publishing, 2021.
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1. Into the Weeping Waters
About the Author
Also by Lee Murray
Into the Weeping Waters
New Zealand, Tangiwai, 24 December 1953, 10:15pm
Rawiri Temera jerked upright on the leather bench seat, the hairs on his neck prickling. The 626-night express rattled rhythmically on the tracks, a slow and steady lullaby. His fellow passengers bobbed their heads in sleep—even the children, which was no small feat given it was Christmas Eve. Across the aisle, a boy lay with his head in his mother’s lap and his thumb in his mouth, and beyond the slumbering pair, in the orange glow of the carriage light, his own reflection